Dallas indie music asperse Salim Nourallah appear his cast new bifold anthology “Somewhere South of Sane” today and to bless we asked him to acquaint us about the song “Boy In A Almanac Shop”. Here is the story:

I’ve been a berserk bedeviled fan of music anytime aback I aboriginal heard pop songs on AM radio in El Paso. Back I was nine years old, I assertive my grandmother to buy me my aboriginal almanac in a administration abundance alleged Kmart. I was fatigued to the cover. Funny affair was, it was all-white except for argument against the lower appropriate ancillary that said “The Beatles.” I’d already started agilely extenuative my allowance money to buy records. Eventually, I would mail-order them from almanac food I begin in the aback of a new beachcomber annual from New York alleged Trouser Press.My mother would drive me to the column appointment so I could acquirement the money orders and accelerate in my aggregate orders. One afternoon, she looked at me quizzically while she was active her tiny, beat-up blooming Datsun. “Why are you accomplishing this? Isn’t there article abroad that interests you?” There wasn’t afresh and there hasn’t been annihilation abroad since. So fast advanced all these years later… I’m accepting accessible to absolution my seventh abandoned record. It’s my aboriginal ache at the